48 A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 



On the lateral feathers the ocelli are double, and on all after the 2nd pair the 

 twin ocelli merge along the shaft. The outer ocellus is very much the larger, and it 

 increases regularly as we proceed outward. On the 3rd pair the outer ocellus is only 

 one and a half times as large as the inner, while on the outer rectrices it is two and a 

 half times as large. 



The ocelli on the more central pairs of coverts and rectrices are glistening green in 

 all lights ; the lateral ones of both series show an intense blue when viewed toward the 

 light, changing to green away from the point of illumination. 



The tail-moult appears to agree with Polypledron and Argitsianus, proceeding 

 outward from the 3rd from the inner pair. 



I rides hazel ; bill bluish horn, paler at the tip ; legs and feet dark grey. Bill from 

 nostril, 12 mm. ; wing, 210; tail, 320 to 380; tarsus, 73; middle toe and claw, 54 mm. 

 The majority of specimens I have examined have had one spur on one leg and two on 

 the other. A slightly less number had one on each leg, while I have seen only two with 

 two on each leg. These spurs are quite straight, sharp, and; average 10 mm. in length. 



Adult Female. — Except in the development of the body and wing ocelli and in 

 the much smaller general size, the female differs in no way from the male. In a fully 

 adult female the ocelli are as large and numerous as in the male, but the violet 

 iridescence of those on the body and wings is either wholly absent or visible only in 

 certain lights as a faint gloss. The distal buff spot, though small, is always present. 



The ocelli are wholly absent from the tail-coverts and the central rectrices, and they 

 are somewhat less developed on the lateral feathers, although in relative size and 

 position they correspond closely to those in the male, except that on the outer pair of 

 feathers the ocellus on the inner web is absent. 



There are eighteen tail-feathers. 



Flesh colours as in the male. Bill from nostril, 11 mm.; wing, 180; tail, 215 to 

 255 ; tarsus, 58 ; middle toe and claw, 43 mm. Spurs absent. 



Juvenile Plumage. — A chick collected on February 23, still partly in down, is in 

 full moult. The bill is coloured as in the adult ; dark, except for the terminal portion 

 of both mandibles, which is pale horn colour. 



The whole head and neck are still clad in natal down, except for the ear-coverts and 

 a few small feathers on the anterior forehead, although feathers in the sheath are in 

 evidence in many places. The whole crown and nape is of rufous down, barred with 

 black. The few new feathers on the forehead are black with white centres. The ear- 

 coverts are almost wholly black, and show as a conspicuous patch of dark colour on the 

 side of the head. From the crown, backward over the face, the rufous colour is rather 

 abruptly lost, and the down becomes a monochrome pale buff over the chin, throat and 

 side neck, with as yet almost no signs of moult. 



Abruptly on the lower neck the new body contour plumage appears ; well-grown 

 for the most part, although showing some sheathed feathers. 



The entire under-parts differ from the adult in being more of a monochrome dark 

 brown, with only a small amount of mottling, but showing plain hints of the vague, 

 whitish, subterminal area. Beneath the plumage of the lower parts are traces of the 



